Night fell.
Yuan Xing and Jiang Chai rode through the city inspecting it, and when they passed the county government, six severed heads were hanging beneath the archway before the county government gate. They were all grain merchants and salt merchants who had taken the chance to jack up prices, killed by Yuan Xi as a warning to everyone.
Yuan Xing reined in at the county government gate and looked inside.
He saw the county government brightly lit, Yuan Xi sitting in the main hall issuing orders, with more than twenty village chiefs standing below the hall awaiting assignments. Outside the hall, another seven or eight people, guilty of some unknown offense, were kneeling and waiting for their fate.
The next moment, he heard Yuan Xi say expressionlessly, "Those who disturb my army's morale, drag them all out and behead them."
